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Enclosure acts began in Britain
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Willem Janzoon was the first known European to discover Australia in the ship called the Duyfken
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Convicts stopped being sent overseas to America.
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Steam powered machinery was invented.Industrial Revoulution began.
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House of commons decided NSW was suitable as a penal colony.
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Captin Author Phillip was chosen to lead the First Fleet.
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The First Fleet left on 13th May.
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Arthur Phillip was governor of the colony.
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Two more fleets arrived.
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First free colonists arrived.
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Huge growth in population poverty and crime.
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Governor Lachlan Macquarie arrived.Construction of roads and building began
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In 1901 Australia became an independent nation when the British government passed down a legislation allowing all the six colonies to govern in their own right as part of the commonwealth of Australia.
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The stolen generation, light skin Aboriginal people were taken away from their parents to learn the way of the white people.
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Australia wholly divided into six colonies.
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World war 1 begins and people age 18 or over can fight.
